What happens as the brain matures?
What happens as the brain matures?
Brain plasticity drops in adulthood and again in old age. In this Healthmaker video, Frances Jensen, MD, neurology department chair at the University of Pennsylvania explains how to increase the adult brain's capacity to learn.
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